“The unavoidable fact is that the nation is currently run by people who have a deep and unshakable relationship with TV, entranced from their beginnings by a medium with unambiguously negative effects on personality and accomplishment.” — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“More than anything, Boomer influence is a story of sheer numbers. As of the early 1980s, when the Boomer revolution really kicked off, the… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“What establishes the Boomers as a political generation is that the Boomers’ overriding policy ambitions have been defined not in conventional terms like race… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“For those readers who are Boomers, or have parents or grandparents who are Boomers, it may be of small comfort that this book does… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The sociopaths’ goal is to wring every last dollar from the system, and any investment that could not be fully realized within Boomer lifetimes… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The pastoral Left, religious Right, and everywhere in between were afflicted by a resurgent sentimentality and desire for immediate gratification incompatible with the uncompromising… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Once Boomers have been unseated, undoing their decades of mismanagement will require a significant social reorganization, especially of retirement and health-care benefits, and a… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The point of this context is not to demand a return to the era of 90 percent taxation, but simply to remind that in… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“The sociopathic society of consumption depends heavily on goods turned out by dismal sweatshops (e.g., Boomer Kathie Lee’s/Wal-Mart’s Dickensian workshops, Boomers Steve Jobs’/Tim Cook’s… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Reagan (or, at least, the public’s version of him) was tailor-made for the sociopathic electorate. Never again would the Boomers be told to save,… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint on individual… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“What Washington cannot easily change is the culture itself—specifically the culture created by the Boomers. Until that happens, the parade of mediocrity, underfunding, and… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
